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Diagnostic thinking processes: evidence from a constructive interaction study of electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation
Author(s) -
Simpson S. A.,
Gilhooly K. J.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199712)11:6<543::aid-acp486>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - constructive , psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , inference , cognitive psychology , categorization , trace (psycholinguistics) , domain (mathematical analysis) , social psychology , artificial intelligence , process (computing) , computer science , linguistics , mathematics , programming language , operating system , mathematical analysis , philosophy
This paper examines the use of different types of knowledge at different levels of expertise in the domain of electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation. Analyses of constructive interaction protocols from expert, novice and intermediate subjects working in same‐skill pairs on six ECG traces indicated that: novice and intermediate pairs produced proportionately more trace characterizing statements than the other groups; expert pairs produced proportionately more clinical hypothesis statements and proportionately fewer but more complex biomedical inference statements than the other groups. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.